WAR SUPPLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 5

WAR SUPPLIES

i HALTING FLOW TO JAPAN NEW POST FOR MR HOPKINS. FOLLOWING ON MISSION TO BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright ! WASHINGTON. February 20. Mr Harry Hopkins has been appointed a member of the Office of Production Management’s Planning Board, which deals with plans for short and long-term defence work. It is believed the appointment is related to early British and American collaboration to deprive the Japanese of vital war supplies. The new post will give Mr Hopkins, who is reported to have brought back • a British proposal for such measures . against Japan, great influence on the distribution of war materials. ; General George Marshall, United . States Chief of Staff, who was a mem- . bcr of the American military mission > which visited Britain recently, gave . evidence on the Bill before the Senate • Military Affairs Committee today, His ; evidence was not made public, but members of the committee said that } he was optimistic regarding the possi- , biliiy of a British victory. Senator . Lee, a member of the committee, I stated: “He told us something rather j encouraging." I Reports say that General Marshall : spoke about the situation in the Far I East. He is said to have described the ! situation in the Pacific as serious, and |to have told the committee that the ' United States intends to reinforce the ' Pacific fleet immediately with an unspecified number of the latest type of war planes. Army and naval officers have requested that reserve stocks of tungsten should be used only for defence purposes in ease supplies from China should be interrupted, GENEROUS GIFTS FROM THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. February 20. The Colonial Secretary. Lord Moyne, acknowledged from the Federated Malay States the sum of £450.000 as a free gift. The money was raised by war taxation and additional customs duties from September to December. ■ 1940. I He also announced that the Rajah jof Purlis. the smallest state in the | Malay peninsula, has given £17.500 as I J a further contribution to Britain for) ; war purposes, SNAKES & DOVE JAPANESE MAJOR'S VIEW. BRITAIN AND AMERICA ACCUSED. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) i SHANGHAI, February 21. 1 An Army spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama, at a Press confer- j ence, said Japan was like a peace dove, but that Britain and America were "snakes, placing snake eggs | in the dove’s nest,” and 'Japan’s ) reaction,’ he added, is to "protest ) very vigorously," An interpreter added that Major Aki-1 yama "means nothing unkindly when I he calls Britain and .America snakes." | Major Akiyama said the snakes’ eggs include the fortification of Singapore; and Guam and the arrival of .Au.-tra-. 1 i.'ij. : in Malaya and added ilia: Britain i and America were making an elfort to), "impure the status <iibi upon Japan,"! wherea.-: actually Britain and .America i were guilty first of breaking the Pacific; , .■■. talus (|im. the former when she abru-I gated the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and ( the latter when -lie abrogated the), Japaibi-American commercial treats'. ■ ; He raid Japan is always victimised Major Al r..,:na aid all- the ’all; of . war in the Pacific "centred on the , ea deni ide i>i the Pacific, whereas in '■ , the western Pactlic everyone wa cry-; < in;; peace." • , Asked whether the Japanese had planned or v.cre planning counter-; < me. . tii'i"; against tin- arrival of the Ai;: j iralian ir<-< m Malaya. Maj •;• Al-:;- , yama ; aid ' Not .. • far ;-. the Army j ill Ml AND DENIAL ( ) JA) 'A .* .Sr. I A. \; ) H)H HASES » :<• <*• ,’:c: (